Sentence examples for mordant contempt from inspiring English sources

The narrators have a mordant contempt for everyone and everything, including themselves.

That theory-educated cohort — which included Barbara Kruger, who produced mordant feminist agitprop, and Sherrie Levine, who took deadpan photographs of classic modern photographs — beamed contempt at established myths, modes, and motives of prestige in art.

Mordant satire is uneasily matched with slapstick plot reversals, and it must be conceded that the objects of Pierre's contempt — tabloid TV, consumer-culture idiocy, the American obsession with the sufferings of others, material goods, and "image" — are not very original.

Not contempt.

Beneath Contempt.

Most mordant dyes yield different colours with different mordants.

Use Dutch mordant with extreme caution.

Mr. Gilani chose contempt.

Learn contempt from him.

Contempt, § 21.

Consider Adbusters' mordant "Joe Chemo" ads.